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chris matthews conflating gun control with assassinations of public figures. listen. >> i don't want to be part of a movement to keep semi-automatics in the hands of people today, the hoarders, survivalist, paranoid and criminal and down right politically nutty. why? the next mass shooter could emerge out of this pack. check shooters of john f. kennedy a jerry ford who got shot at twice. look at the men who shot bobby kennedy and martin luther king. they had political motive and guns. got them easy and put them to use easily. if you are not against the movement, you are with it. >> eric: legal gun owners with assassinations? this is outrage, play tant media outrage -- ridiculous. >> greg: stop using the word "epic fail." i banned it the first show we did. no! go ahead. >> dana: are you -- >> kimberly: are you done having a moment there? somebody takes him seriously when he said tickle me all the way up. he is trying to get ratings and create a buzz. doing a good job because we're talking about it. but the argument is off-base. it doesn't mean he has credibilit
chris matthews conflating gun control with assassinations of public figures. listen. >> i don't want to be part of a movement to keep semi-automatics in the hands of people today, the hoarders, survivalist, paranoid and criminal and down right politically nutty. why? the next mass shooter could emerge out of this pack. check shooters of john f. kennedy a jerry ford who got shot at twice. look at the men who shot bobby kennedy and martin luther king. they had political motive and guns. got...
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chris matthews wasn't the only one in the media. there were many figures among the professional left who if they weren't explicitly cheering christopher dorner on certainly harbor some sick sympathy for this man. it goes back to academia it goes back to treating these evil people and empty vessels into which they pour every last left wing grievance. if you watch that clip very closely it almost seems like chris matthews takes pride that he was mentioned in the manifesto with all of these other liberal journalists. of course there's this idea among people at the dregs of media that somehow only smart people watch them. >> it makes a lot of sense. >> at 8:00 a.m. this morning michelle malkin will appear on fox and friends with much more on this. >> now stories that you can bank on this morning. a major merger in the sky today. joi joining us now in the fox business network is lauren simonetti. this is huge the largest airline carrier will be formed today. >> it is expected to be announced today. the board of american airlines parent a
chris matthews wasn't the only one in the media. there were many figures among the professional left who if they weren't explicitly cheering christopher dorner on certainly harbor some sick sympathy for this man. it goes back to academia it goes back to treating these evil people and empty vessels into which they pour every last left wing grievance. if you watch that clip very closely it almost seems like chris matthews takes pride that he was mentioned in the manifesto with all of these other...
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i'm chris matthews up in new york. tonight president obama will deliver his state of the union and we'll have full coverage, of course, of that tonight. but first, there's breaking news out in southern california where police may be closing in on christopher dorner, that fugitive ex-los angeles cop sought in three killings. nbc's john yang is in our los angeles bureau, but let's go to former fbi profiler clint van zandt who has been watching this. he's on the phone. clint, what are we looking at here? it seems the evidence we have is he broke into a house in the san bernardino mountains, tied up two of the people who lived there, stole their pickup truck and is now trying to get away from police. >> yeah. it may be that's exactly the case. realize, chris, that's one of the scenarios that law enforcement had to the consider. as you know, up in those mountains where they've conducted this massive manhunt, there are literally hundreds of private homes and cottages, some that are occupied and some that aren't. police belie
i'm chris matthews up in new york. tonight president obama will deliver his state of the union and we'll have full coverage, of course, of that tonight. but first, there's breaking news out in southern california where police may be closing in on christopher dorner, that fugitive ex-los angeles cop sought in three killings. nbc's john yang is in our los angeles bureau, but let's go to former fbi profiler clint van zandt who has been watching this. he's on the phone. clint, what are we looking...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. is what the president started today an all-out challenge to the republicans to stop these crazy manufactured crises we've been having? every few months now we've got another deadline, another abyss, another coming government shutdown. this brinksmanship has become elemental to american politics. republicans now threat ton bring government down to a crashing halt regularly. democrats have to plead with them, practically beg them not to do it. well, this torpedo politics if you you want to call that that, started with newt gingrich in the '90s he was the first right wing radical saying making government work isn't our job, bringing it down is is. destroy it, get people to lose faith in it. lose faith in the ability of the country to do something right. today president obama warned of the casualties, a weakened national defense, the huge loss of jobs, and with it a crippling of the recovery. by the way, with that ax ready to fall, he offered a way out of the endless government shutdowns
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. is what the president started today an all-out challenge to the republicans to stop these crazy manufactured crises we've been having? every few months now we've got another deadline, another abyss, another coming government shutdown. this brinksmanship has become elemental to american politics. republicans now threat ton bring government down to a crashing halt regularly. democrats have to plead with them, practically beg them not to do...
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i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this. we can usually tell when a political party has gone off the deep end. republicans did it with goldwater, democrats with mcgovern, fdr did it when he tried to pack the supreme court. republicans did it when they impeached bill clinton. so let's talk about this grabbed standing hue loo hooping bonanza of bs the republicans have thrown at chuck hagel. look at the list of gop senators who voted today again to continue the filibuster against the president's nominee for secretary of defense. check these names. barrasso and enzip of wyoming. cornyn and cruise of texas, crapo and rich of idaho, paul and mcconnell of kentucky. boozman of arkansas, coats of indiana, fisher of nebraska, grassley of iowa, heller of nevada, hoeven of north dakota, imhoff of oklahoma. eye sayson of georgia, johnson, wisconsin. >>> kirk of illinois. moran of kansas. portman. roberts of rubio florida. toomey of pennsylvania. vitter of louisiana and wicker of mississippi. think about it, all these men, all men, voted
i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this. we can usually tell when a political party has gone off the deep end. republicans did it with goldwater, democrats with mcgovern, fdr did it when he tried to pack the supreme court. republicans did it when they impeached bill clinton. so let's talk about this grabbed standing hue loo hooping bonanza of bs the republicans have thrown at chuck hagel. look at the list of gop senators who voted today again to continue the...
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chris matthews picks things up right now. >>> the war on chuck hagel. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. the breaking news. senate republicans have successfully blocked a vote on chuck hagel. republicans have thrown out so many different reasons for this it's hard to know why they're opposing the man becoming secretary of defense. it's hard to keep up with all their arguments. it's because hagel hasn't accounted for every penny he's made and every single word of every single speech he's ever given. it's because of what he said about israel and iran, maybe, but it's also because of the white house's response to benghazi, perhaps, something obviously, but that was nothing to do with chuck hagel who wasn't in the government at that time. well, today republican threats to take the unprecedented step of blocking a presidential cabinet appointment came to fruition, if you will. democrats moved forward with a procedural vote to end debate and pave the way for a final up and down vote.
chris matthews picks things up right now. >>> the war on chuck hagel. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. the breaking news. senate republicans have successfully blocked a vote on chuck hagel. republicans have thrown out so many different reasons for this it's hard to know why they're opposing the man becoming secretary of defense. it's hard to keep up with all their arguments. it's because...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. today in the arguments over the voting rights act justice scalia called the act, the voting rights act a racial entitlement. got that? entitlements. the friging right to vote is like food stamps. it's not actually. it's a right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied to vote by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. that was ratified under president grant one of my heroes actually. as we know it was put into effect after a century of poll taxes, literacy tests and other gimmicks to keep blacks from voting. only because of the voting rights act of 1965. yes, it has a wonderful name as you put it. the reason is not the words or their spelling or the english language in which this is written or spoken about. no. it's about its meaning. that the united states congress will ensure that people get to vote in places that they weren't before. and that does not refer only to the segregations of the past. it refers to the people out there i
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. today in the arguments over the voting rights act justice scalia called the act, the voting rights act a racial entitlement. got that? entitlements. the friging right to vote is like food stamps. it's not actually. it's a right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied to vote by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. that was ratified under president grant one of my heroes...
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deon and chris matthews, thank you as always. chris, tonight, of course, you'll have more on this topic. something teltz me he has a few more things to add. at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on msnbc. lee accident i wanted to ask you this question. >> sure. >> and it is -- we are talking about the sort of modernization of the catholic church. it never even occurs to us to talk about the topic of the fact that there are no women in the upper echelons. there's no female leadership. >> no, there's not. a lot has to change for that to happen, but chris brought up the whole point. our world is changing, and this institution for thousands and thousands of years, you know, is going to have to figure out how to change it because one of the other crisis that the pope inherited, along with the sex abuse scandal, is simply the fact that we are becoming an increasingly secular society, and there are ways to kind of, you know, stop that from happening. not stop it from happening, but just embrace it or deal with it, and as chris was saying, kind of
deon and chris matthews, thank you as always. chris, tonight, of course, you'll have more on this topic. something teltz me he has a few more things to add. at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on msnbc. lee accident i wanted to ask you this question. >> sure. >> and it is -- we are talking about the sort of modernization of the catholic church. it never even occurs to us to talk about the topic of the fact that there are no women in the upper echelons. there's no female leadership. >>...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this crying and gnashing of republican teeth. it started with karl rove wailing in the gop wilderness screaming for an end to crazy candidates. no more rape candidates, he said. in fact, he cried that out. no more akins or mourdocks and the rest. all that did ways a way i cannen the sleeping dogs. joe walsh is out there today with a new political action committee. steve king and paul brown are howling in fur yi that big shots like rove are saying who should be the republican nominees and who shouldn't. today it was eric cantor's turn. he wants change. the super hawk of the party gave his manifesto at the city's nonprofit war room, the american enterprise institute. what he came out for, nom tu decree that colleges have to conduct employment surveys to say what jobs there are for history majors, english majors. i guess he wants to cut down on these people taking liberal subjects in college that allow you to think and express yourself. he sounds like he wants t
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this crying and gnashing of republican teeth. it started with karl rove wailing in the gop wilderness screaming for an end to crazy candidates. no more rape candidates, he said. in fact, he cried that out. no more akins or mourdocks and the rest. all that did ways a way i cannen the sleeping dogs. joe walsh is out there today with a new political action committee. steve king and paul brown are howling in fur yi that big shots like rove...
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i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this. we can usually tell when a political party has gone off the deep end. republicans did it with goldwater, democrats with mcgovern. fdr did it when he tried to pack the supreme court. republicans did it when they impeached bill clinton. so let's talk about this grand standing, hula hooping bonanza of bs the republicans have thrown at chuck hagel. look at the list of gop senators who voted today again to continue the filibuster against the president's nominee for secretary of defense. barrasso, enzi, mcconnell, roberts, boozman, grassley, heller, hoeven, inhofe, isaacson, rubio, scott, tumyi, wicker. all these republicans voted today against having a vote on hagel. they did so after it was clear there would be a vote today. they did it to put themselves on record to undermine the functions of the government. they did it to put themselves on record for no better reason than to undermine, undermine is the key word here, the successful functioning of our government. they knew it would hurt
i'm chris matthews back in washington. let me start tonight with this. we can usually tell when a political party has gone off the deep end. republicans did it with goldwater, democrats with mcgovern. fdr did it when he tried to pack the supreme court. republicans did it when they impeached bill clinton. so let's talk about this grand standing, hula hooping bonanza of bs the republicans have thrown at chuck hagel. look at the list of gop senators who voted today again to continue the filibuster...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this big one. is barack obama going for it? is he suddenly becoming one of the great presidents in history? i'm not talking about mt. rushmore but perhaps the level right below it. i'm talking, to use his word, transformational. and is he using the country's historic demographic shift to do it? can he combine the new american power of hispanics and other minorities with the immediate aspirations of women to lob himself into the highest level of presidential greatness? can he bring on an era of democratic, even liberal dominance, for years to come? this is what his adversaries fear. they look at his working of the gun safety crusade, his positioning on immigration reform, his distancing himself from the triumphing over -- even triumphing over the hard often bizarre right wing of this country to do it. are they on to something? could this president be the president of our time? tonight we examine on president's day just where barack obama intends to go. where he intends to be once he, too, joins the
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this big one. is barack obama going for it? is he suddenly becoming one of the great presidents in history? i'm not talking about mt. rushmore but perhaps the level right below it. i'm talking, to use his word, transformational. and is he using the country's historic demographic shift to do it? can he combine the new american power of hispanics and other minorities with the immediate aspirations of women to lob himself into the highest...
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i'm chris matthews. in washington, let me start with this tonight, with the angriest cries from the right. listen to them. they arise from the last row of the latest town meeting of the tea party. they voices reach up to the highest levels of the gop. the republican party, a long time ago the party of prudence and fiscal responsibility is now the war party of the mideast, the stop the government party here at home. watch tonight as someone who has pander eed to those extreatme t. we start tonight with the tea party and what it does to someone like john mccain. i told you it would come to this and now we've got the proof on camera. a party that spits at its leaders listens only to the loudest, angriest person in the back row. boehner is nothing to this crowd. it never heard of kantor. mitch mcconnell, a nobody. what matters to the republican far right are the few to dare to be even further right. now the huffington post editorial director. the 2013 version of john mccain version took on his constituents w
i'm chris matthews. in washington, let me start with this tonight, with the angriest cries from the right. listen to them. they arise from the last row of the latest town meeting of the tea party. they voices reach up to the highest levels of the gop. the republican party, a long time ago the party of prudence and fiscal responsibility is now the war party of the mideast, the stop the government party here at home. watch tonight as someone who has pander eed to those extreatme t. we start...
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chris matthews and "hardball" is next. ♪ >>> war on drones. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. just a day before the president's chief counterterrorism adviser john brennan heads to capitol hill for his confirmation hearing to take over the cia, the white house has to answer some tough questions about its overseas drone program. the catalyst is a leaked white house memo obtained by nbc's michael isikoff that justifies in certain cases attacks on american citizens abroad. the white house has forced strong criticisms from advocates over the drone policy. ron wyden tweeted today every american has the right to know when the government believes it is allowed to kill them. what's surprising people is how much most americans seem to casually accept this as the cost of doing business in a dangerous world. eugene robbins is a columnist and david corn is from mother jones. both are msnbc political analysts. let's take a look here at ed carney, the president's spokesman, talk ab
chris matthews and "hardball" is next. ♪ >>> war on drones. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. just a day before the president's chief counterterrorism adviser john brennan heads to capitol hill for his confirmation hearing to take over the cia, the white house has to answer some tough questions about its overseas drone program. the catalyst is a leaked white house memo obtained...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the strange business on the right. one thing you could say in the old days about this country's right of center politics is that it was tightly organized. there were no huge wars separating the north from the south. the center right from the hard right. well, tonight as we end this week, the chasm today is deep, dark, and alarming. look at karl rove out there barking orders like someone has elected him ring master. look at newt gingrich out there blasting away at rove. consider the mayhem now afoot. the center right wants to bring discipline to the party. they're tired of losing elections they figured they were going to win. the hard right wants none of this proctoring. they want to run free wherever they want for whatever office they want. you have the gop big shots running the little people around and the little people in the party fracking the big shots. it's quite a show. joy reid is managing editor of the grio and david corn is washington bureau chief for mother joans. both are msnbc political analysts. and glad f
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the strange business on the right. one thing you could say in the old days about this country's right of center politics is that it was tightly organized. there were no huge wars separating the north from the south. the center right from the hard right. well, tonight as we end this week, the chasm today is deep, dark, and alarming. look at karl rove out there barking orders like someone has elected him ring master. look at newt...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. it's a down and dirty world when you decide chopping down the government and hurting the economy is the smart move. but bring it all down is now the hard right battle cry. slash spending, short the pentagon. crew up traffic control whatever raises the noise level, bashes the democrats and lowers hope. is this the tea party dream? is this john boehner's version of feeding time at the zoo, giving the crazies what they want so they will sit in their seats and behave? is this final payment to insanity the last vestige of what calm republicanism is ready to cough up? but how else can you explain the readiness of the gop leadership to let this fraken stein's monster, it doomsday machine, this sequestration go all out berserk? how else can we understand the party of lincoln doing such economic damage to the republic, such damage and moral to the people. democrat ed rendell and republican michael steele. gentlemen, i want to start with you, michael, because i know you will disagree with me an
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. it's a down and dirty world when you decide chopping down the government and hurting the economy is the smart move. but bring it all down is now the hard right battle cry. slash spending, short the pentagon. crew up traffic control whatever raises the noise level, bashes the democrats and lowers hope. is this the tea party dream? is this john boehner's version of feeding time at the zoo, giving the crazies what they want so they...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this horror show happening on the right. as i speak, you can hear the rumble of right versus right vitriol, fingers wagging angrily, even crazily, in every direction now. karl rove, the architect of the iraq war, the escapee from the cia scandal, the proud sponsor of the conservative feats in 2006 and 2008 who wasted fat cat money by the tens of millions, that karl rove is thumping around the country right now like a wounded elephant threatening to crush the party's fringes. tea partiers, look out. he may not be able to beat democrats, but he's got big, bad you in his sights. so the fight has begun. while steve king, matt kibbe, joe walsh, rush limbaugh, all the inhabitants of the cuckoo nest are scrambling because karl rove is drawing lines in the sand. want republicans to win? cut out the crazies? want the democrats, stop giving them easy targets, rape candidates and witches. stop making the democrats look smart and reasonable by running stupid and crazy ca
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this horror show happening on the right. as i speak, you can hear the rumble of right versus right vitriol, fingers wagging angrily, even crazily, in every direction now. karl rove, the architect of the iraq war, the escapee from the cia scandal, the proud sponsor of the conservative feats in 2006 and 2008 who wasted fat cat money by the tens of millions, that karl rove is thumping around the country right now like a wounded elephant...
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i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this stunning news today that the head of the 1.2 billion. person roman catholic church is retiring at the end of the month. this is the first time in many century that is a pope has done anything like this. well, the question is whether a new pope to be elected in the next two or three weeks can refine church doing trin on matters like birth control, the role of women. can he correct and meet certainly head on the scandals that have besieged and enraged the catholic chump in the u.s. and in irmd and other countries in tonight i will tell you what i think. i know who the front run ser right now and what we can expect of him. and let's face it, the election of a pope is a political as well as a spiritual undertaking. ambition and humility both play their roles. the stakes, who will lead the church for the years ahead, probably for our lifetimes. it's going to matter and not just to catholics. i'm joined by melinda henin burger and e.j. deon. here is my pick, c
i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this stunning news today that the head of the 1.2 billion. person roman catholic church is retiring at the end of the month. this is the first time in many century that is a pope has done anything like this. well, the question is whether a new pope to be elected in the next two or three weeks can refine church doing trin on matters like birth control, the role of women. can he correct and meet certainly head on the scandals that have...
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david gregory, chris matthews and chuck todd. up next, nobody has ever accused him of being part of any dream team, jim vandehei. and up next, bill karins with the forecast. will we have another snowstorm this weekend? >> first we have snow around syracuse, buffalo, rochester, new york, a little bit of snow for burlington, vermont. this is probably the nicest day for much of the week. d.c. is gorgeous, 53 and sunny. through the 40s and massachusetts. and hopefully all the plow driver drivers will still get to some roads they haven't plowed yet. today is mardi gras. watching a lot of rain in the deep south. we had rainy days three days in a row now. charleston to new orleans. and other trouble spots, joining us from north texas or oklahoma, a snowstorm. amarillo is snowing now. it will head to oklahoma city a little earlier today and later shift over to snow. winter storm warnings and advisories. oklahoma city, i think you will end up with 2 to 3 inches of snow. back to i-40, probably as much as 6 inches and could probably shut do
david gregory, chris matthews and chuck todd. up next, nobody has ever accused him of being part of any dream team, jim vandehei. and up next, bill karins with the forecast. will we have another snowstorm this weekend? >> first we have snow around syracuse, buffalo, rochester, new york, a little bit of snow for burlington, vermont. this is probably the nicest day for much of the week. d.c. is gorgeous, 53 and sunny. through the 40s and massachusetts. and hopefully all the plow driver...
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i was just making a joke. >>> chris matthews, political wiz, but also movie guru. we'll get his take on the oscars and everything else. and "the new yorker's" david rennick. i know what you're thinking... transit fares! as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. no? oh, right. you're thinking of the 1.6 million daily customer care interactions xerox handles. or the 900 million health insurance claims we process. so, it's no surprise to you that companies depend on today's xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. which is...pretty much what we've always stood for. with xerox, you're ready for real business. which is...pretty much what we've always stood for. and didn't know where to start. used a contractor before at angie's list, you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare written by people just like you. no company can pay to be on angie's list, so you can trust what you're reading. angie's list is like having thousands of close neighbors where i can go ask for personal recommendations. that's the idea. before yo
i was just making a joke. >>> chris matthews, political wiz, but also movie guru. we'll get his take on the oscars and everything else. and "the new yorker's" david rennick. i know what you're thinking... transit fares! as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. no? oh, right. you're thinking of the 1.6 million daily customer care interactions xerox handles. or the 900 million health insurance claims we process. so, it's no surprise to you that companies...
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chris matthews picks things up right now. >>> the pain of mccain. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. why is john mccain so angry? 40 years after the vietnam p.o.w.s came home, the most famous of them is angrier than ever. why is america, why are we fighting the vietnam war all over again in the united states senate? the ticked off vitriol against chuck hagel. what is it about is? is it for show? is it about something hagel said in the cloakroom? is it the unfairness of vietnam itself that some went and sond didn't. is it about johnson's inability to win that war or end it. what burns so deeply in john mccain these days? it seems to excite those who knew nothing about vietnam but want to replay it. we big into the deep well of resentment purning in john mccain's patriotic heart. a resentment not against the north vietnamese who imprisoned and tr toured him all those years, no the against george w. bush and his political henchmen who tried to stain mccain's reputation back in 2000, but against a gu
chris matthews picks things up right now. >>> the pain of mccain. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start with this. why is john mccain so angry? 40 years after the vietnam p.o.w.s came home, the most famous of them is angrier than ever. why is america, why are we fighting the vietnam war all over again in the united states senate? the ticked off vitriol against chuck hagel. what is it about is? is it for show? is it about...
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chris matthews and "hardball" is next. >>> cruising for a bruising. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. as butch cassidy once asked, who are these guys? what a ratty bunch. they spend their days holed up in the senate taking pot shots at the president. trying to bring down his defense chief. nasty as hell, they have nothing good to say for the country, only nasty words to spew about the people running it or hoping to. john mccain who served the country so admirably has become an angry fellow from dawn until dusk taking an occasional break to remember who he is and saying, enough of this when his new allies get out of hand. when ted cruz starts attacking the loyalty to america of one of mccain's fellow vietnam vets, a combat vet at that. the vicious ps is something we haven't seen before because of the combination of mccarthyism and this weird unconnectedness attacking chuck hagel, for example, because no one will give us info or anyone info about the benghazi situation even tho
chris matthews and "hardball" is next. >>> cruising for a bruising. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. as butch cassidy once asked, who are these guys? what a ratty bunch. they spend their days holed up in the senate taking pot shots at the president. trying to bring down his defense chief. nasty as hell, they have nothing good to say for the country, only nasty words to spew about...
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i'm chris matthews up in new york. tonight president obama will deliver his state of the union and we'll have full coverage, of course, of that tonight. but first, there's breaking news out in southern california where police may be closing in on christopher dorner, that fugitive ex-los angeles cop sought in three killings. nbc's john yang i
i'm chris matthews up in new york. tonight president obama will deliver his state of the union and we'll have full coverage, of course, of that tonight. but first, there's breaking news out in southern california where police may be closing in on christopher dorner, that fugitive ex-los angeles cop sought in three killings. nbc's john yang i
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and up next, chuck todd joins us here on set along with chris matthews from washington. but first, bill karins. >> not so great. >> it's not. bill. >> well, good morning, everywhere. we have a very exciting period of weather coming your way. three or four winter storms, one on the california west coasts, another in the great lakes. this is the beginning 6 our stormy pattern and it's cold in the northern planes. first things first, though, travel trouble, slippery, light know, milwaukee down to chicago. just a coating on the roads. and i was mentioning how cold it is. the windchill just went into the negative numbers in chicago. wlook the your friends up in north dakota. minus 42 is how it feels on your skin if you head out this morning. so this is bitterly cold down through the northern planes. for our friends in california waking up early today, it's going to rain, in l.a., looks like san francisco, the tail end of the rush hour towards the lunch hour is your timing. hasn't rained a lot in l.a. this winter. so east coast, just light rain showers. but we have the cold, t
and up next, chuck todd joins us here on set along with chris matthews from washington. but first, bill karins. >> not so great. >> it's not. bill. >> well, good morning, everywhere. we have a very exciting period of weather coming your way. three or four winter storms, one on the california west coasts, another in the great lakes. this is the beginning 6 our stormy pattern and it's cold in the northern planes. first things first, though, travel trouble, slippery, light know,...
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that was chris matthews. who has not think republicans are fair enough. [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: who said we are using in this country the same cold war c.i.a. tactics to destabilize our own country. look at the impact of the does not threats to shut down the government on public confidence. it is all in the ratings. it is making people forever nervous about the basic ability of america to have a running government. is that patriotic? i don't think so. who said that? >> william taft. >> stephanie: no. chris matthews. [ applause ] >> stephanie: the president on the sequester. >> obama: they don't have to happen. there is a smarter way to do this. to reduce our deficits without harming our economy. but congress has to act. >> what a tyrant. >> stephanie: yes. here is senator john barrasso of wyoming basically saying uh-huh. >> i would say this to the president as i say it to you these spending cuts are going to go through on march 1st. taxes are off the table. >> he is the reason why people ha
that was chris matthews. who has not think republicans are fair enough. [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: who said we are using in this country the same cold war c.i.a. tactics to destabilize our own country. look at the impact of the does not threats to shut down the government on public confidence. it is all in the ratings. it is making people forever nervous about the basic ability of america to have a running government. is that patriotic? i don't think so. who said...
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jon: there is another "meet the press" question and that has to do with the use of chris matthews as a political commentator on that program. take a look the a a couple of examples. >> i watched them in those hearings and i saw joe mccarthy. i saw the way he was prosecute cuting the case, putting up evidence, innuendo, guilt by association. it was an undemocratic system the way john boehner played this. >> it's all the republicans fault. jon: he was talking about texas senator ted cruz. what do you think about that. >> why is it not okay to have chris matthews, but it is okay to have carlie fiorina. if you have one you have the other isn't that fair & balanced? >> the problem with what matthews said there is he compared senator cruz to the late senator joe mccarthy. he accused his associates of being members of the secret police and spies and so on. i don't think cruz is accusing anyone of being on the payroll of the iranian government. there is a huge difference. if chris matthews can't see that he needs to -- >> the point is if you're going to make accusations have the facts to bac
jon: there is another "meet the press" question and that has to do with the use of chris matthews as a political commentator on that program. take a look the a a couple of examples. >> i watched them in those hearings and i saw joe mccarthy. i saw the way he was prosecute cuting the case, putting up evidence, innuendo, guilt by association. it was an undemocratic system the way john boehner played this. >> it's all the republicans fault. jon: he was talking about texas...
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. >> stephanie: he didn't get the chris matthews oh, god until that point. >> always look so young too don't they? i don't know if it is the background or the setting. >> stephanie: nervous much? i think i'm pretty sure boehner was drinking bourbon. we'll talk about that in a bit. in the meantime, jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning, everybody. president obama heads to asheville, north carolina, today, where he takes his state of the union proposals directly to the people he's going to tour a factory then give remarks about boosting manufacturing in the united states. the president covered all of the expected domestic issues last night or most of them including jobs in the economy. climate change, education social benefit programs, immigration and voting rights. one of the most emotional moments of the night came when he finally talked about gun safety legislation and said that no matter how lawmakers want to vote on it, the matter has got to get to the floor. >> obama: gabby giffords deserves a vote. the families of newtown deserve a vote. and the countless oth
. >> stephanie: he didn't get the chris matthews oh, god until that point. >> always look so young too don't they? i don't know if it is the background or the setting. >> stephanie: nervous much? i think i'm pretty sure boehner was drinking bourbon. we'll talk about that in a bit. in the meantime, jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning, everybody. president obama heads to asheville, north carolina, today, where he takes his state of the union...